Tag: Women’s Rights
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Open Letter to the Australian Human Rights Commission
Is the Australian Human Rights Commission conducting a witch-hunt? We are a group of civil society organisations, health practitioners, researchers, lawyers, writers and individuals, people of faith and atheists, from across the political spectrum. We are writing to express our deep alarm at the Australian Human Rights Commission’s current project aimed at “mapping” alleged threats…
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More than 70 per cent of transgender prisoners are in for sex offences or violent crimes
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Violent offences among male prisoners who identify as women shows why they shouldn’t be in female prisons, say women’s rights campaigners More than 70 per cent of transgender prisoners in British jails are serving sentences for sex offences and violent crimes, government figures have revealed. At least 181 of the 244 transgender inmates, more than…
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Opinion: Rodney Croome: Will promoting hate achieve a win-win?
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This opinion piece was written by Isla MacGregor in response to Rodney Croome’s article. It was rejected by the new editor of The Tasmanian Times I read Rodney Croome’s article ‘Turf War: What’s really Behind Recent Attacks on Trans Tasmanians’ with considerable interest, most notably for the conspiratorial tone of his article and the lack…
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Is Terry White Pharmacy excluding mothers?
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The Terry White Chemmart Catalogue which was for items on sale from 1st June until 20th June 2023, contained the page shown below. The section entitled A family affair includes the sentence, ‘The birthing parent is the most important person in the family to be vaccinated.’ This is yet another example of the insidious and…
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Leon Compton saying NO debate on the Drum
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in Media BiasLeon Compton, is another activist journalist at ABC Hobart who refuses to cover women’s rights issues because it might hurt trans people. Transcript from The Drum 9th June 2023 “As a journalist it’s sometimes hard because you want to air a balance of perspectives but what perspectives are reasonable to air? Particularly those that dress…
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Open letter to Board of Directors Equality Australia
From: An Alliance of Australian lesbian, women’s and children’s rights organisations Dear Directors of the Board of Equality Australia, We the undersigned represent a broad alliance of lesbian and women’s rights organisations in Australia who have come together to invite Equality Australia to participate in a mediated round table discussion over the substantive issues that…
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Women’s rights groups call on Tasmania government to conduct inquiry
Standing for Women, Tasmania, in collaboration with an alliance of women’s, lesbians’, and children’s human rights groups, has written to the Premier calling on his government to conduct a parliamentary inquiry into events leading up to and on the day of the Let Women Speak event held on Tuesday 21 March 2023, on Parliament House…